Architectural case studies and material exemplars to spark your creativity and inspire your next project.
For the third year running, Architizer is excited to partner with Sunbrella for the Future of Shade Competition to design beautiful spaces using fabric. With the growing interest and increasingly diverse range of entries in the past two editions of the annual competition, this year sees its expansion to three distinct categories — Humanitarian, Wellness…
Like so many gems of Los Angeles architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hollyhock House is set on a hill just above a generic shopping center. Approaching the entry to the Barnsdall Art Park, its 36-acre site, from the street, it’s hard to imagine that such an immersive, dramatic experience of modernism is in a park just…
After being freshly appointed with the Golden Lion award at last year’s Venice Architecture Biennale , South Korea has become one of the architecture scenes to keep an eye on. The politically ambitious project Crow’s Eye View, presented at the Korean Pavilion in Venice, aimed to ”demonstrate the potential of an unified Korea by bringing together…
In 2011, Foster + Partner’s Spaceport America opened in the New Mexican desert with some wild fanfar e: Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson propelled down the side of the building, champagne in hand, rockets soaring in the air, to christen the $220-million launchpad of the world’s first civilian spaceflight. Four years down the line and nary…
If you are a fan of architecture, digital design, typography, and GIFs — the undisputed darlings of online artistry — then you are in for a real treat. Creative firm Deepblue Networks recently collaborated with illustrator Florian Schommer on a marketing campaign for their website, transforming their logo into gigantic letter-shaped buildings — crisp axons…
There’s a popular fixation on waterfront architecture lately. A plus-shaped pool installed in the mi dst of New York’s East River, along with an artificial wave pool in Melbourne’s Victoria Harbour, and other amusement park projects like it have city-dwellers raving about the wonders of civic architecture like never before. Seaside construction, sadly, isn’t all about…
Time and again, if anyone in the media mentions the Pritzker Architecture Prize, it’s dubbed t he “Oscars of architecture.” While film and architecture are both intensely collaborative ventures, the Oscars acknowledge film’s diverse expertise with awards in directing, cinematography, sound editing, and many more. In contrast, the Pritzker is a solo prize for a lifetime…
Do not adjust your screen. These are the true colors of Richard Neutra’s 1946 Kaufmann Desert House, the emblem of Palm Springs’s own exuberant brand of modernism, as they’re rarely captured — in the middle of the night. Embedded in the popular imagination through sun-bleached photography, the renowned midcentury homes of Palm Springs — being…
If the stratospheric rise of Dubai from desert city to mega-metropolis wasn’t already head-spinning enough for you, try watching this truly frenetic fly-through, the latest creation by filmmaker and time-lapse wizard Rob Whitworth. Unsurprisingly, this work of awe-inducing madness comes from the same videographer who gave us the most epic tour through Catalonia with his…